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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Seneca the Younger

Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Love Military Soldier
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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